Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

by Angelica Gorodischer

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This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories.
But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and translator Ursula K. Le Guin are a well-matched, sly and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1416504117
  • ISBN13 9781416504115
  • Publish Date 1 February 2005 (first published 1 September 2001)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint ibooks
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English